More Tech And Lack Of Competition Should mean Better Ratings For Indianapolis 500 - Forbes
26 May 2012, 10:37 pm
Television ratings for the Indianapolis 500 have been trending down for several years, from a high of 6.5. in 2005 to below 4.0 in both 2010 and 2011. That has put a lot of pressure on Randy Bernard, who became CEO of the Izod IndyCar Series in ...

Stanley Cup Final 2012: Players Who mean the Most to Their Teams - Bleacherreport.com
26 May 2012, 6:40 pm
The New Jersey Devils will face the Los Angeles Kings in the 2012 Stanley Cup Final, and both teams owe much of their success to a couple of invaluable players. These men have meant the world to their respective teams throughout the regular season and ...

Obama Has a mean Streak and He Turned It on Romney This Week - Daily Beast
26 May 2012, 3:39 am
The president, for all his cool, has a mean streak—just ask Hillary Clinton—and this week he turned it on Mitt Romney, writes Lloyd Grove. Never mind “cow pie of distortion”—President Obama’s earthy attack on Mitt Romney that ...

Heavy sea ice could mean slight delay in offshore Arctic drilling - Los Angeles Times
25 May 2012, 10:16 pm
SEATTLE -- The heaviest polar ice in more than a decade is clinging to the northern coast of Alaska and could postpone the commencement of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic until the beginning of August — a delay of up to two weeks, Shell ...

What would Greek exit mean for the U.S. economy? - Reuters
24 May 2012, 6:00 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Uncertainty over the fate of the euro currency is already dampening U.S. economic growth and any significant worsening of the crisis would deal a blow to a recovery that is gradually gathering steam. Economists estimate ...

CP strike could mean up to 3,400 staff are laid off - Windsor Star
23 May 2012, 6:58 pm
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. says it will be forced to lay off 2,000 additional employees immediately and for the duration of a strike by 4,800 of the railway's engineers, conductors, and traffic controllers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail ...

MARVEL ANNOUNCES ‘X-MEN’s’ GAY WEDDING: Does this mean mainstream comics are ‘evolving’? - Washington Post
22 May 2012, 12:19 pm
ED. NOTE: In the wake of President Obama’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage, some readers have asked whether mainstream comics will ”evolve” in their depictions of gay couples (to invoke Obama's word). Today, three comics figures ...

For Chinese Dissidents, Exile Can mean Irrelevancy - NPR News
21 May 2012, 2:50 pm
U.S. diplomats were relieved this weekend when China allowed a prominent dissident, Chen Guangcheng, to fly to New York with his family. China, too, is presumably happy that Chen is no longer in the country doing his advocacy work. Chinese ...

Fracking In New York: For Farmers, Gas Drilling Could mean Salvation-- Or Ruin - Huffington Post
20 May 2012, 12:21 pm
ALBANY, N.Y. -- When Dan Fitzsimmons looks across the Susquehanna River and sees the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or ...

MMA's Top Ten mean-Muggers: Fan's View - YAHOO!
16 May 2012, 9:13 am
Unofficially, mean-mugging is defined as the act of a fighter putting on their game face for the purpose of intimidating opponents before engaging in battle. It's been a part of pro combat sports for decades, perhaps made famous in the 1980s by boxers like ...